These baked meatballs doesn't just have the taste of barbecue sauce on them, but also in the middle. Conveniently baked in muffin pans, they hold the structure of a ball, even when expanding and cooking. Here is how to make barbecued muffin meatballs.

Makes 12 meatballs.

Ingredients

1 pound ground beef

1 pound ground pork

2 eggs, beaten

1 1/2 cups seasoned dry bread crumbs

1 teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon black pepper

2 tablespoons onion, chopped finely

Sauce

6 tablespoons brown sugar

1/2 cup ketchup

1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

2 teaspoons dry mustard

Steps

Make the sauce. In a small bowl, mix the dry mustard, ketchup, nutmeg, and brown sugar together.

3

Make the meatballs. Using clean hands, mash the ground meats, bread crumbs, eggs, chopped onion, and seasonings in a large bowl. Pour about half the sauce into the mixture and thoroughly integrate it into the meat mixture.

4

Roll the mixture into 12 balls.

5

Add them to a pre-greased deep muffin pan.

6

Gently push your thumb down in the center of the ball mixtures to make small indentations. Pour the rest of the sauce in the holes.